Aberrant Prose

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A Happy Birthday to Chris!

Chris turned 38 today. As has become tradition every year, Robert and I took him out for pizza last night to celebrate. We gave him a robot made of sparkplugs, odds and ends, nuts and bolts. He bought himself an iPhone.

Foghead

I collect KFOG’s Live From the Archives CDs. Early this morning I headed to Peet’s in Napa in the rain and the fog to buy my 11th one: Live From the Archives Fifteen. My collection might actually be worth something if I had started with CD number one. I collect these CDs because I have this idea I need them for inspiration. Not for the music. Someday I am going to design a cover to enter KFOG’s annual CD cover design contest.

Things with wings

For Halloween this year Rylan decided he wanted to be a flying dragon. Kathy decided Aubrey would make a cute butterfly. Between their darling costumes and the Halloween prints I used to make a matching dress and shirt they had a boo-tiful time.

Shutdown, fire up

I now have a new laptop. Up until yesterday Robert has been busy loading software and transferring files from Oliver, the old laptop to Tortoise, the new one. Just as he was transferring the last of my files (my latest photos) Oliver’s hard disk stopped working! Thank goodness I have uploaded almost all of my photos to KodakGallery.com. For a minimum fee of $25 a year I can store as many as I want and retrieve them (at the full 3504 pixels x 2336 pixels) anytime I want. The time to retrieve may have just arrived.

The really sad thing is that if Oliver’s hard drive really has crashed for good Robert won’t be inheriting my old laptop as was the plan. He will have to continue to bumble along on Gypsy, our seven-year-old laptop.

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